Exploring Bachs Bminor Mass Yo Tomita Robin A Leaver Jan Smaczny Eds by Yo Tomita, Robin A. Leaver, Jan Smaczny (eds.) 9781107007901, 1107007909 instant download after payment.

The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life, it is considered by many to be the composer’s greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the international symposium ‘Understanding Bach’s B-minor Mass’ at which scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they comprise a thorough and systematic study of Bach’s opus ultimum, including a wide range of discussions relating to the Mass’s historical background and contexts, structure and proportion, sources and editions, and the reception of the work in the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century. In the light of important new developments in the study of the piece, this collection demonstrates the innovation and rigour for which Bach scholarship has become known.
Yo Tomita is Professor of Musicology at Queen’s University Belfast. His publications include essays in The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (ed. Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg, 2007) and The English Bach Awakening: Knowledge of J. S. Bach and his Music in England 1750–1830 (ed. Michael Kassler, 2004). His research focuses on Bach studies, manuscript studies, piano education, text-critical analysis using Artificial Intelligence techniques and the development of computer software and tools for musicology.
Robin A. Leaver is Honorary Professor at Queen’s University Belfast and Visiting Professor at Yale University. A former president of the American Bach Society, he has written over twenty-five books, including ‘Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes’: English and Dutch Metrical Psalters from Coverdale to Utenhove 1535–1566 (1991), Liturgy and Music: Lifetime Learning (with Joyce Ann Zimmerman, 1998) and Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications (2007). His current research involves several projects on Bach studies.
Jan Smaczny is Sir Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen’s University Belfast. He has wide-ranging research interests, particularly in relation to the impact of earlier music, including that of Bach, on composers of the Romantic era. The author of two books, The Daily Repertoire of the Prague Provisional Theatre (1994) and Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (1999), he has contributed articles to a number of publications, including The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia (2006).